kentonlong Posted September 28, 2018 Posted September 28, 2018 I reinstalled Oblivion the other day, and am experiencing a strange sound bug. When I open the launcher, the music plays, but when I start the game, I lose all sound. Nothing for the intro Bethesda logo, none ingame, none on the menus. I had previously installed Oblivion and used NMM before, but I went through and scrubbed all remaining mod/game data before redownloading. This is a completely fresh install, not using any mods or mod managers. I'm using Windows 10, and my hardware is well past the recommended specs. Skyrim runs pretty well. What I've tried: reinstalling drivers verifying game files making sure the .ini has both sound and music enabled cleaned disc drive run as admin/in compatibility mode It's been bugging the hell out of me because I'm itching to play it again, and I haven't found anything on any forum. Closest thing I could find was a reddit post with the same issue, but it had no replies. Any help would be appreciated. Edit: This is the GOTY edition on steam
fejeena Posted September 28, 2018 Posted September 28, 2018 Do you have the old DirectX 9 files ? Yes it is graphic but it can also affect the sound. Read my yellow Link below. In the Options/Audio menu the sliders not 0 ? ------------------ I found this with Goggle: FIXED. I literally just had to go into control panel/hardware and sound and a popup came up saying that driver enhancements were detected that are causing problems with some programs and gave me the option to disable them.
kentonlong Posted September 28, 2018 Author Posted September 28, 2018 7 hours ago, fejeena said: Do you have the old DirectX 9 files ? Yes it is graphic but it can also affect the sound. Read my yellow Link below. In the Options/Audio menu the sliders not 0 ? ------------------ I found this with Goggle: FIXED. I literally just had to go into control panel/hardware and sound and a popup came up saying that driver enhancements were detected that are causing problems with some programs and gave me the option to disable them. Appreciate the reply. I looked at the sliders in the audio menu and Oblivion is set to the same as all of the other sliders, but is not outputting any sound. I downloaded and installed the old DirectX9 files, but it didn't change anything
Sladen2019 Posted September 29, 2018 Posted September 29, 2018 Here are the Audio settings from my Oblivion.ini if you want to compare. bDSoundHWAcceleration=1 bUseSoftwareAudio3D=0 having differnt values my be your problem. Spoiler [Audio] bDSoundHWAcceleration=1 fMinSoundVel=10.0000 fMetalLargeMassMin=25.0000 fMetalMediumMassMin=8.0000 fStoneLargeMassMin=30.0000 fStoneMediumMassMin=5.0000 fWoodLargeMassMin=15.0000 fWoodMediumMassMin=7.0000 fDialogAttenuationMax=35.0000 fDialogAttenuationMin=7.7500 bUseSoundDebugInfo=1 fUnderwaterFrequencyDelta=0.0000 bUseSoftwareAudio3D=0 fDefaultEffectsVolume=0.8000 fDefaultMusicVolume=0.0600 fDefaultFootVolume=0.8000 fDefaultVoiceVolume=0.2800 fDefaultMasterVolume=1.0000 bMusicEnabled=1 bSoundEnabled=1 fLargeWeaponWeightMin=25.0000 fMediumWeaponWeightMin=8.0000 fSkinLargeMassMin=30.0000 fSkinMediumMassMin=5.0000 fChainLargeMassMin=30.0000 fChainMediumMassMin=5.0000 fDBVoiceAttenuationIn2D=0.0000 iCollisionSoundTimeDelta=50 fGlassLargeMassMin=25.0000 fGlassMediumMassMin=8.0000 fClothLargeMassMin=25.0000 fClothMediumMassMin=8.0000 fEarthLargeMassMin=30.0000 fEarthMediumMassMin=5.0000 bUseSpeedForWeaponSwish=1 fLargeWeaponSpeedMax=0.9500 fMediumWeaponSpeedMax=1.1000 fPlayerFootVolume=0.9000 fDSoundRolloffFactor=4.0000 fMaxFootstepDistance=1100.0000 fHeadroomdB=2.0000 iMaxImpactSoundCount=128 fMainMenuMusicVolume=0.6000 Try using Headphones plugged in, and also in Bluetooth mode if possible. Edit: I just remembered that I had a similar problem a long time ago when I first installed Windows 10. It was with RPG Maker games though. Audio worked fine in everything else except RPG Maker. Windows 10 default audio driver didnt have support for whichever audio codec RPG Maker games used. I was able to fix it by installing the proper brand driver from Conexant. You may need to get a driver from whichever brand your mobo/audio card is.
kentonlong Posted September 29, 2018 Author Posted September 29, 2018 22 hours ago, Sladen2019 said: Here are the Audio settings from my Oblivion.ini if you want to compare. bDSoundHWAcceleration=1 bUseSoftwareAudio3D=0 having differnt values my be your problem. Reveal hidden contents [Audio] bDSoundHWAcceleration=1 fMinSoundVel=10.0000 fMetalLargeMassMin=25.0000 fMetalMediumMassMin=8.0000 fStoneLargeMassMin=30.0000 fStoneMediumMassMin=5.0000 fWoodLargeMassMin=15.0000 fWoodMediumMassMin=7.0000 fDialogAttenuationMax=35.0000 fDialogAttenuationMin=7.7500 bUseSoundDebugInfo=1 fUnderwaterFrequencyDelta=0.0000 bUseSoftwareAudio3D=0 fDefaultEffectsVolume=0.8000 fDefaultMusicVolume=0.0600 fDefaultFootVolume=0.8000 fDefaultVoiceVolume=0.2800 fDefaultMasterVolume=1.0000 bMusicEnabled=1 bSoundEnabled=1 fLargeWeaponWeightMin=25.0000 fMediumWeaponWeightMin=8.0000 fSkinLargeMassMin=30.0000 fSkinMediumMassMin=5.0000 fChainLargeMassMin=30.0000 fChainMediumMassMin=5.0000 fDBVoiceAttenuationIn2D=0.0000 iCollisionSoundTimeDelta=50 fGlassLargeMassMin=25.0000 fGlassMediumMassMin=8.0000 fClothLargeMassMin=25.0000 fClothMediumMassMin=8.0000 fEarthLargeMassMin=30.0000 fEarthMediumMassMin=5.0000 bUseSpeedForWeaponSwish=1 fLargeWeaponSpeedMax=0.9500 fMediumWeaponSpeedMax=1.1000 fPlayerFootVolume=0.9000 fDSoundRolloffFactor=4.0000 fMaxFootstepDistance=1100.0000 fHeadroomdB=2.0000 iMaxImpactSoundCount=128 fMainMenuMusicVolume=0.6000 Try using Headphones plugged in, and also in Bluetooth mode if possible. Edit: I just remembered that I had a similar problem a long time ago when I first installed Windows 10. It was with RPG Maker games though. Audio worked fine in everything else except RPG Maker. Windows 10 default audio driver didnt have support for whichever audio codec RPG Maker games used. I was able to fix it by installing the proper brand driver from Conexant. You may need to get a driver from whichever brand your mobo/audio card is. Unfortunately it doesn't look good. I tried both and I'm still getting the same issue.
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